Bigfist wrote:I am wondering who goes down when Tomlin is activated. I would have said Diaz, but with Cabrera out, it will not be him. I guess the only good news from the weekend is the Pestano and Perez should be fresh for KC.

My guess would be Ascencio DFA'd.

Wouldn't surprise me if they also optioned Sipp out as well and called up a guy like Barnes or Herrmann to give them some length out of the pen for a series or two.

My guess would be Asencio DFA'd for Herrmann.

Can they move Santana to the 15-day? Hafner could go on the 15-day retroactive to May 23. But, then we go to STL and CIN for interleague.

They could also DFA Duncan.

A God Damn dead man would understand that if a minor league bus in any city took a real sharp right turn, a Zack McCalister would likely fall out. - Lead Pipe

But again, someone has to go to make room for Tomlin. Obviously, Diaz was supposed to be the guy, but with Cabrera out, I cannot see them going with Hannahan at SS and Lopez at 3B, and sending Diaz back. I guess they could also just DFA Ascensio and go with six relievers for a couple of days, until ACab can go.

Bigfist wrote:But again, someone has to go to make room for Tomlin. Obviously, Diaz was supposed to be the guy, but with Cabrera out, I cannot see them going with Hannahan at SS and Lopez at 3B, and sending Diaz back. I guess they could also just DFA Ascensio and go with six relievers for a couple of days, until ACab can go.

To be fair, the difference in performance between the two series is incredible. To go from one to the other is pretty shocking, all things considered.

Not shocking in the least. Lose 3-4-5 in your lineup and get those 'regression to means' efforts from Lowe and Gomez and "shit sandwich" every day effort from Ubaldo and what's shocking, and I mean really shocking, is that the enter the last week of May in the top spot.